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Much
of the confusion surrounding evolution arises because advocates claim that the
‘whole’ evolutionary account is so simple or self-evident that one must be
“ignorant, stupid or insane” to not accept it. While
<!g>Darwin’s basic insight of adaptation by descent with modification is indeed
beautifully simple, a complete account of biological history in evolutionary
terms will need to synthesize the data and insights from all the
sub-disciplines into a coherent whole. Finding a representative picture for
this complex history is not easy. Importantly, even the operation of the basic
mechanism of <!g>natural selection can be conceptualised in significantly different
ways. The three main options are as follows.
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